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An alleged armed robber seeking to evade police has been apprehended in Brisbane after unwittingly running into the yard of an off-duty police dog. Police said they had been pursuing a 30-year-old man who had threatened a supermarket staff member with a knife.


Officials in Wales mistakenly erected a road sign saying "I am not in the office at the moment'' in Welsh. The sign had said in English "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only'', but when Swansea Council sent it to be translated, they used an automated email response .


Two young Swedish women tied the knot at the weekend in the first known lesbian wedding at the Taj Mahal, India's ethereal monument to love. The couple, Sandra and Sarah, followed Hindu rituals during the ceremony, conducted by a priest at the Mahadeva Shiva temple.


English music graduate George Garratt, 19, has changed his name by deed poll to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. The Somerset man, who thinks the new name is "crazy", admits his grandmother is no longer speaking to him.


A Swiss shopkeeper fed up with scores of requests for parking meter change is making motorists sing for it. "I didn't want to be rude and just tell people to get lost, so I thought up the idea of getting them to do something if they really wanted the money," Rene Jenni said.